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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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The Principal Applied Science Manager - Excel Team leads a team of applied scientists to architect, design, and deliver AI-powered experiences for Microsoft Excel. This technical leadership role involves managing people while remaining a hands-on builder who contributes to prototyping, experimentation, and production deployment. You will set the scientific direction for agentic AI and evaluation systems, translating customer needs into machine learning, large language models, retrieval, and program synthesis problems. Key responsibilities include driving projects from concept to release, establishing rigorous evaluation frameworks using offline metrics and human evaluation, and curating datasets for modeling. You will apply state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and agent orchestration to solve real-world usage patterns and product failure modes, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and low-latency intelligent systems for productivity applications.
Python
Machine Learning
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models
Data Engineering
OCI
knowledge-graph s
Data Pipelines
Statistical Analysis
Model Evaluation
Experimental Design
Bioinformatics
Genomics